Aims and scope
Nature Clinical Practice Rheumatology provides timely authoritative interpretations of key research developments, translating the latest findings into clinical practice.
Content includes editorial and opinion pieces, highlights from the current literature, commentaries on the application of recent research to practical patient care, comprehensive reviews, and in-depth case studies. Content is subject to rigorous peer-review.
Coverage includes prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of conditions of the joints, muscle, bones, blood vessels, and connective tissue, including systemic autoimmune disease, inflammatory and degenerative diseases of joints, regional musculoskeletal disorders, osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease, pain management, imaging, immunology, genetics, clinical trials, epidemiology and clinical outcomes.
All content is editorially independent. Authors are asked to state any professional or financial situations that may be perceived as causing a conflict of interest with respect to integrity of content.
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